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Sir Galahad in Meditation

c. 1917

Florence Camm

(British, 1874–1960)

studio of Thomas William Camm

(British)

England, 20th century

Stained glass

Overall: 94 x 40 cm (37 x 15 3/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1917.973

Location

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Description

Working for Camm Studio, English stained glass artists Florence and Walter Camm designed these studies in glass for a larger window originally intended for the chapel at Princeton University. They were acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1917 through the American architect Ralph Adams Cram.

Artist biography

Thomas William Camm

Thomas William Camm started his stained-glass studio in Smethwick in the English midlands in the mid-1800s, and his children Walter and Florence carried on the business will into the 20th century after William's death.

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Inscription

signed: Florence Camm.

Provenance

from the studio of Thomas William Camm; (Ralph Adams Cram, Boston).

Citations

H. G. "Two Panels of Modern English Glass." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 5 (1918): 56-59. Reproduced: p. 59; Mentioned: pp. 56-57 www.jstor.org

"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 82-85. Mentioned: p. 82 www.jstor.org

Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced: fig. 136, p. 102; Mentioned: p. 103

Exhibition history

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (12/19/04-4/3/05); Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum (5/19-9/5/05); Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art (10/16/05-1/8/06): "The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World"

The Cleveland Museum of Art; "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s." Sept. 30, 2017-Jan. 14, 2018.

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2005-January 8, 2006).

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).

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